Show Times

"Hilarious, heartbreaking and haunting…a brilliant piece of work and a must-see." – Jeff Manes, Post-Tribune

This Kartemquin-produced chronicle of a near-decade in the life of East Chicago, Indiana, outsider artist Peter Anton, now 83, boasts as many layers, permutations and interpretations as the pages of one of his profusely illustrated scrapbook journals. Discovering the vast body of the reclusive artist’s life’s work in a trash-filled home, the filmmakers become friends, virtual care-givers, and champions of his art. When a critically acclaimed retrospective at Intuit, Chicago’s Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, brings the aged artist into the limelight, a precipitous revelation about his past threatens his new-found celebrity. DCP digital. (BS)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12: THE CINEMATOGRAPHY
Post-screening discussion (and slide show!) with Aaron Wickenden (Almost There Co-Director and Cinematographer) and David Schalliol (Almost There Environmental Cinematographer). Co-Presented by the MoCP, the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 14: THE EDITING
Post screening between Anthony Kaufman (Film writer, teacher and programmer) and Aaron Wickenden, ACE (Editor of Almost There, Best of Enemies, The Interrupters, The Trials of Muhammad Ali)